Tennessee teachers push back on evaluation process

[madfloridian]

1. Good for them. Michelle Rhee & ex hubby Kevin Huffman, TFA are attacking them hard.

New TN education commissioner is a VP of Teach for America. Rhee there also as anti-union.

The Republican governor's selection is Kevin Huffman, vice president of public affairs at Teach for America, a program that has tried to improve classroom teaching by placing recent college graduates in low-income schools and is often criticized by teacher unions.

Huffman, 40, will manage the state's $500 million in federal Race to the Top education grants and its ongoing relationship with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which has pledged $90 million to the troubled Memphis school system.

..."The 20-year-old Teach for America has been criticized by the National Education Association and other teachers' unions for putting inexperienced 20-somethings with just five weeks of training in classrooms and for letting top graduates experiment in public education for a couple of years before moving on to something else.

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And his ex-wife, Michelle Rhee, is taking time out from wreaking havoc on Florida schools and heading to Memphis. In Florida she recommended that 8% of the state's teachers be fired.